Synopsis
To test its top-secret Human Hibernation Project, the Pentagon picks the most average Americans it can find - an Army private and a prostitute - and sends them to the year 2505 after a series of freak events. But when they arrive, they find a civilization so dumbed-down that they're the smartest people around.
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Cast
- Luke WilsonCpl. "Average Joe" Bauers / "Not Sure"
- Maya RudolphRita
- Dax ShepardFrito Pendejo
- Terry CrewsPresident Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho
- Anthony 'Citric' CamposSecretary of Defense
- David HermanSecretary of State
- Sonny CastilloProsecutor
- Kevin McAfeeBailiff
- Robert MusgraveSgt. Keller
- Michael McCaffertyOfficer Collins
Recommendations
- 91
The A.V. Club
There's a good chance that Judge's smartly lowbrow Idiocracy will be mistaken for what it's satirizing, but good satire always runs the risk -- of being misunderestimated. - 80
Los Angeles Times
The plot, naturally, is silly and not exactly bound by logic. But it's Judge's gimlet-eyed knack for nightmarish extrapolation that makes Idiocracy a cathartic delight. - 80
Film Threat
It elicits so many laughs, in fact, that you have to wonder just what Judge did to piss off the suits at Fox so much that they would willingly torpedo one of the only genuinely hilarious movies to come out this year. - 80
Slate
Idiocracy is easily the most potent political film of the year, and the most stirring defense of traditional values since Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. - 75
Slant Magazine
Idiocracy is too scattershot and compromised to push the conceptual bleakness beyond the realm of lowbrow comedy, though Judge’s cultural ire remains bracing throughout: For all the characters’ slapsticky imbecility, Judge makes it clear that it’s their docile acceptance (read: political inactivity) that makes them true dumbasses. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Idiocracy, is often stingingly funny -- and an undeserving resident of the summer's-end movie dumping ground. - 67
Austin Chronicle
The delivery in Idiocracy is frequently flat, but it's vision is dead-on. - 60
Variety
A satire for its time. What Judge is less sure of here than in his previous, perfectly pitched live-action comedy "Office Space," is how to build a complete movie around his key ideas.
